Norway's electricity production from hydroelectric sources (% of total) was 89.55% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 6.23 percentage points from 95.78% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 89.55% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 91.8% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 95.78% | 2015 |
| Highest | 99.62% | 1992 |
| Lowest | 88.17% | 2022 |
| Average since 2016 | 91.93% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 99.62% | 1990 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Norway's electricity production from hydroelectric sources (% of total) rose 0.62 percentage points on 2024 (from 88.93% to 89.55%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.35 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.95 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.0 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 1.41 percentage points in 2012 and the biggest yearly fall was 3.25 percentage points in 2022. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is downward, about 0.93 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 87% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
A straight-line projection, tested first
Extending that straight line gives about 85.69% for 2028. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2023 to 2025 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 0.71%, against 1.02% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.
See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.
How it compares
In 2025, Norway had the 2nd highest value of the 39 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Norway | 89.55% | 2025 |
| World | 15.23% | 2025 |
| Europe & Central Asia | 16.36% | 2025 |
| High income | 12.29% | 2025 |
Closest to Norway in the 2025 ranking
- Costa Rica — 2nd of 39: 74.35%
- Colombia — 3rd of 39: 72.05%
- Iceland — 4th of 39: 69.9%
What this measures
The share of electricity production from hydroelectric sources of total electricity production. Sources of electricity refer to the inputs used to generate electricity. Hydropower refers to electricity produced by hydroelectric power plants.
Limitations: IEA occasionally revises its time series to reflect political changes. For example, the IEA has constructed historical energy statistics for countries of the former Soviet Union. In addition, energy statistics for other countries have undergone continuous changes in coverage or methodology in recent years as more detailed energy accounts have become available. Breaks in series are therefore unavoidable.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average using total electricity production as weights.
All 36 values
| Year | Electricity production from hydroelectric sources (% of total) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 89.55 |
| 2024 | 88.93 |
| 2023 | 89.08 |
| 2022 | 88.17 |
| 2021 | 91.42 |
| 2020 | 91.8 |
| 2019 | 93.42 |
| 2018 | 94.98 |
| 2017 | 95.74 |
| 2016 | 96.23 |
| 2015 |
Electricity production from hydroelectric sources (% of total) in nearby economies
- Albania — 90.5% (2024)
- Andorra — 75.86% (2021)
- Armenia — 21.93% (2024)
- Austria — 50.71% (2025)
- Azerbaijan — 10.59% (2024)
- Belarus — 0.69% (2024)
- Belgium — 1.7% (2025)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina — 31.99% (2024)
- Bulgaria
More environment data for Norway
- Population in largest city — 1.12 million (2025)
- Population in the largest city (% of urban population) — 23.79% (2025)
- Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million — 1.12 million (2025)
- Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million (% of total population) — 19.88% (2025)
- Rural population — 921,833 (2025)
- Rural population (% of total population) — 16.43% (2025)
- Urban population — 4.69 million (2025)
- Urban population (% of total population) — 83.57% (2025)
- Aquaculture production (metric tons) — 1.67 million (2024)
- Capture fisheries production (metric tons)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Norway's electricity production from hydroelectric sources (% of total)?
- 89.55% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1990?
- It is down 10.06 percentage points from 99.62% in 1990. The highest value was 99.62% in 1992 and the lowest 88.17% in 2022.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator EG.ELC.HYRO.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: IEA Energy Statistics Data Browser, International Energy Agency (IEA), uri: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/energy-statistics-data-browser, publisher: International Energy Agency (IEA), date accessed: 2025-03-25 Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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